Gena Showalter Quotes

For pain is perhaps but a violent pleasure? Who could determine the point where pleasure becomes pain, where pain is still a pleasure? Is not the utmost brightness of the ideal world soothing to us, while the lightest shadows of the physical world annoy?

Youth might be wise; we suffer less from pains than pleasures.

Without pain, how could we know joy?' This is an old argument in the field of thinking about suffering and its stupidity and lack of sophistication could be plumbed for centuries but suffice it to say that the existence of broccoli does not, in any way, affect the taste of chocolate.

Ordinarily pleasure and pain are regarded as different from sensations.

That's the thing about pain, it demands to be felt.

Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure.

When I was 13, I really used to skip down the street, happy in thinking, "Oh, well, someone's suffering pain in order for me to feel this pleasure."

For each ecstatic instant We must an anguish pay In keen and quivering ratio To the ecstasy.

Without Pain, How Could We Know Joy?

When we say that pleasure is the end, we do not mean the pleasure of the profligate or that which depends on physical enjoyment--as some think who do not understand our teachings, disagree with them, or give them an evil interpretation--but by pleasure we mean the state wherein the body is free from pain and the mind from anxiety.

There's a certain satisfaction in a little bit of pain.

Could fulfillment ever be felt as deeply as loss?

We must feel the pain before the pleasure, only then can we tell them apart.

Think about love, or hate, or joy, or pain- whatever makes you feel something, makes your palms sweat, or your toes curl. Focus on that feeling. When people don't express themselves, they die on piece at a time.

No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest good.

Music takes me to places of illimitable sensual and insensate joy, accessing points of ecstasy that no angelic lover could ever locate, or plunging me into gibbering weeping hells of pain that no torturer could ever devise".

I think that hurting gives us a way to measure being happy. How can you know one without knowing the other.

Every nerve that can thrill with pleasure, can also agonize with pain.

The individual's right to pursue his own vision of the best ration of pleasure to pain: utterly sacrosanct.

There's a fine line between pleasure and pain. Love me like a ball and chain.

In 'The Republic' he [Plato] states that the enjoyment of food is not a true pleasure because the purpose of eating is to relieve pain - hunger.

Pain is less subject than pleasure to careless expression.

Pain or pleasure? I say pleasure.

Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure... they govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all we think: every effort we can make to throw off our subjection, will serve but to demonstrate and confirm it.